soapcentral.com | All My Children | As the World Turns | Bold and the Beautiful | Days of our Lives | General Hospital | Guiding Light | One Life to Live | Young and the Restless | Other shows
  LATE-BREAKING NEWS »    Charles Pratt, Jr. has been fired as head writer of All My Children
  THE BIG STORIES  » Darius McCrary hired as The Young and the Restless' new Malcolm Winters
 »  TODAY: Golden Globe winner James Franco debuts on GH
Friday, November 20th, 2009  

  
Follow soapcentral.com:  
This Week | Recaps Archive | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
    JANUARY      1997    

    6TH      THROUGH        10TH    

Laura and Phoebe plotted to get Brooke and Pierce back together. Skye changed the results of Dimitri and Maria's paternity test. Erica learned that she was pregnant, but wanted to keep it a surprise until after she told Bianca. Janet and Pierce had a heart-to-heart and face-to-face talk. Amanda gave Janet a photo of herself to talk to when she felt lonely. Andy learned of the paternity test mix-up, and Maria told Edmund that she and Dimitri slept together.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    13TH      THROUGH        17TH    

Tad feared that Dixie might turn Gloria off to him. Liza tried to put the moves on Adam. At a surprise baby shower for Maria, Erica broke the news of her pregnancy. Skye and Edmund shared a kiss but nothing more. Dimitri's car swerved off the road.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    20TH      THROUGH        24TH    

Liza tried to seduce Adam to no avail, so he sent her on a business trip with Tad. Brooke and Pierce made plans for a date. Edmund agreed not to leave Wildwind, and told Dimitri that he and Maria would raise Maria's baby as their own. Tanner learned of Skye's involvement in the paternity test fraud and blackmailed her to help repay the money he stole from Holidays.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    27TH      THROUGH        31ST    

Tanner made Hayley uncomfortable during a flying lesson and Hayley later revealed that she felt "sparks." Dimitri agreed to keep silent about his affair with Maria and to never admit that she was carrying his baby. Erica asked Dimitri to re-remarry her. Adam hired Jake to work at WRCW to see if he could get Liza to succumb to her desires. Erica told Skye that she was no longer a friend, and Skye vowed revenge. Amanda viewed a tape of Janet confessing her past crimes on The Cutting Edge, and traveled to the Marick mine shaft.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    FEBRUARY      1997    

    3RD      THROUGH        7TH    

Amanda viewed a tape of Janet confessing her past crimes and ran away from home. Skye was banned from Erica's wedding and cast off by Janet, then gave in to her cravings for alcohol. A drunk Skye wrote a note to Erica, telling her not to marry Dimitri because he fathered Maria's child, and then showed up at the wedding to watch the fallout. Janet tracked down Amanda at the Marick mine, but both ended up prisoners of the well.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    10TH      THROUGH        14TH    

Skye never got a chance to tell Erica why she should not marry Dimitri. Erica lost her baby and then craved a pill to numb her pain. Edmund wanted to start over with Maria. Brooke and Pierce made love. Amanda and Janet were rescued from the well.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    17TH      THROUGH        21ST    

Isabella hinted to Mateo that Hayley might not be right for him. Dimitri left for Hungary to find a child to adopt. Trevor told Amanda that Janet was her real mother. Erica figured out that Maria was carrying Dimitri's baby.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    24TH      THROUGH        28TH    

Scott told Laura that he loved her. A Chandler dinner party turned out to be a disaster. Tanner and Hayley made a crash landing en route to Texas to see Mateo. Trevor offered to help Janet get back into Amanda's life. Erica got Edmund out of town so that she could confront Maria about her affair with Dimitri.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    MARCH      1997    

    3RD      THROUGH        7TH    

Liza and Jake shared a kiss, but Belinda was the one who would be dating Jake. Brooke learned that Pierce was suffering from flashbacks. Erica confronted Maria about her affair with Dimitri. The ensuing stress caused Maria to go into premature labor. Erica helped deliver the baby and then raced it to the hospital. On the way, her car spun out of control.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    10TH      THROUGH        14TH    

Hayley realized that something happened between her and Tanner during their time in the cave. In his visions of his war days, Pierce determined that he was responsible for Christina's death. Everyone believed Maria's baby was dead, but Erica tracked the baby down and prepared to return her to Wildwind.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    17TH      THROUGH        21ST    

Tad and Gloria's relationship hit a pothole, while Adam gave Liza "bedroom privileges." Skye overheard Hayley tell an AA meeting that she might have slept with Tanner, and later Tanner confirmed Hayley's fear. Erica crashed a memorial service for Maria's child with stunning news. Erica then faked a trip to Russia to adopt a baby when the baby was really Maria's child!
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    24TH      THROUGH        28TH    

Edmund and Maria enlisted help to find their baby. Erica made plans to leave town but Opal insisted on tagging along. Hayley told Brooke that she remembered sleeping with Tanner in the cave. In a truly priceless cliffhanger, the music began and all eyes turned to the back of the church. Instead of Hayley and Adam appearing, Erica entered. With a huge smile on her face and Sonja in her arms, Erica began her march down the aisle.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    31ST      THROUGH        APRIL        4TH    

Hayley had cold feet at the last minute and called off the wedding. Marian had dreams of being bludgeoned with a crowbar. Erica received a visit from Esther, a visit that struck terror in her.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    APRIL      1997    

    7TH      THROUGH        11TH    

Esther learned the truth about Erica's baby but agreed to keep quiet. Adam squashed a deal that would have seen Liza move to San Francisco. Marian wanted Ruth's help in keeping Jake and Liza apart. Erica held a book signing. Pierce proposed to Brooke in their new house as a mystery woman looked on. Jack learns that Erica did not adopt the baby from Russia.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    14TH      THROUGH        18TH    

Erica told Jack that she did not adopt the baby from Russia, and he agreed to keep her secret a secret. Adam was furious when he learned that Liza and Jake planned to become a couple. Earl began feeding information to Mateo about Tanner's shenanigans, for a price, but Earl was the one who ended up paying.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    21ST      THROUGH        25TH    

Tanner asked Skye for a large sum of money in order to keep her dirty deeds a secret. Pierce and Brooke announced their engagement. Diana said she was not sure if she wanted her manuscript published. Hayley underwent hypnosis to find out if Tanner sexually assaulted her. Mateo began to wise up to Tanner's evil doings. Erica and Sonya were almost killed when Dimitri nearly mowed them down with his car.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    28TH      THROUGH        MAY        2ND    

Mateo determined that Tanner murdered Earl. Hayley accused Tanner of rape. Skye convinced Stuart to put up WRCW as collateral so she could pay off Tanner. Erica took Dimitri to court. Diana's true identity was revealed.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    MAY      1997    

    5TH      THROUGH        9TH    

Marian blasted Jake for trying to break up Adam and Liza. Erica moved to create a rival talk show to Tad's. Brooke refused to believe that Diana and Christina were the same person. Hayley accused Tanner of sexually assaulting her.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    12TH      THROUGH        16TH    

Joe tried to talk Jake into returning to Pine Valley. Mateo moved in on Tanner and Hayley's location. After a struggle, Tanner was shot and later died.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    19TH      THROUGH        23RD    

Dimitri celebrated acquiring WRCW. Amanda got the wrong idea about a hug between Janet and Trevor. Erica began to have nightmares about kidnapping Sonya. Janet and Jack went out on a date.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    26TH      THROUGH        30TH    

Erica blundered and called Maria and Edmund's child a "she." Hayley and Mateo were married. Adam lashed out at Dimitri for duping Stuart. Esther began to have second thoughts about making Maria believe that her daughter was dead.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    JUNE      1997    

    2ND      THROUGH        6TH    

Gloria agreed to help Dimitri when a model canceled an appeared on The Cutting Edge, and then he helped himself to a kiss from her. Bianca arrived back in town and almost immediately ended up in the hospital. Marian plotted to get Adam and Liza closer. Brooke allowed Pierce and Christina to grow closer. Liza had her sights set on owning WRCW.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    9TH      THROUGH        13TH    

Hayley and Mateo left on their honeymoon. Trevor showed signs of jealousy towards Jack's dating of Janet. Skye tried to arrange a date with Jake. Belinda and Liza looked for ways to scheme Dimitri out of owning WRCW. Adam planned on getting even with Liza and Dimitri. Erica decided that she had to give Sonya back to her parents.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    16TH      THROUGH        20TH    

Jamie disappeared while on a camping trip. Kevin got a full four-year scholarship to PVU but he might have problems with his roommate. Laura decided that she could not have sex with Scott. Erica made her move to return Sonya to Maria. WRCW got a brand new owner.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    23RD      THROUGH        27TH    

Brooke bordered on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Adam and Liza shared a spontaneous and passionate kiss at the Couple of the Year banquet. Erica finally returned Sonya to Maria.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    30TH      THROUGH        JULY        4TH    

Trevor and Skye had a date, and Amanda tried everything in her power to thwart the romantic evening because she felt her daddy should be dating Janet. Dimitri took to The Cutting Edge to tell the public of Erica's kidnapping of Sonya. Jack came to the conclusion that he had to charge Erica with kidnapping.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    JULY      1997    

    7TH      THROUGH        11TH    

Amanda thwarted a date between Trevor and Skye with a hat full of glue. Laura was reunited with her mother's shawl, but was afraid to see a man who had more of her mom's stuff. Erica hid out in the attic at the Chandler Mansion with a little help from Adam. Liza told Jack where Erica was hiding. A regretful Jack watched as Erica was arrested.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    14TH      THROUGH        18TH    

Tad called off the wedding because Gloria couldn't dump Dimitri as a friend. A new intern named Ally had a humorous run-in with Joe. Erica was granted bail but had to live at Chandler Mansion under Adam's custody. Liza learned that she was pregnant. Janet and Trevor kissed!
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    21ST      THROUGH        25TH    

A psychiatrist with questionable techniques blamed Kevin for Laurel Dillon's death. Gloria and Tad's troubles were patched up for the moment and Dimitri offered to "help" his friend get back with her lover. Liza prepared to tell Adam that she was pregnant with his child.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    28TH      THROUGH        AUGUST        1ST    

Erica's case came to trial but Erica was more concerned with dressing to impress Jack. Janet and Trevor argued over their kiss, and Janet fled town to clear her mind. Liza spent the night at Tad's to avoid Adam. In the morning, Gloria found Liza in Tad's bed and thought the worst.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    AUGUST      1997    

    4TH      THROUGH        8TH    

A strange man, who somehow knew Laura, began following her around. The jury was about to render a verdict but Erica suddenly decided to change her plea. A commuter plane carrying Edmund, Maria, Brooke, and Madeline crashed.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    11TH      THROUGH        15TH    

Brooke tried desperately to save Maria from the wreckage, but the plane fell over a cliff and into the ocean with Maria still inside. Joe underwent heart surgery. Kelsey learned of Kevin's "therapy." The town reacted in shock to the tragic aftermath of the plane crash.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    18TH      THROUGH        22ND    

When Laura neared telling her loved ones about her past, Jim felt the need to silence her. Skye told Edmund that she altered the paternity test results, but he didn't hear her. Gillian, a snooty European beauty, made her debut. Adam dared Liza to prove that she was carrying his child. Skye found her note of "confession" on the beach just a few yards from the crash site.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    25TH      THROUGH        29TH    

Allie saved Joe's life when she discovered he was having a reaction to one of his medications. Maria's memorial service was held. Edmund blamed Brooke for Maria's death. Jim and Laura came face-to-face-again. Julia returned, but for only one hour. Kevin and Kelsey kissed.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    SEPTEMBER      1997    

    1ST      THROUGH        5TH    

Gillian told Laura that she kissed Scott. Brooke headed to Washington for answers on the plane crash. Skye talked Edmund into a getaway to the shore, unaware that a hurricane was approaching. Dimitri tapped into the hospital computer system and learned that Edmund was not 100% leading him to pursue custody of Maddie. Kevin had dinner with his parents for the first time in many moons.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    8TH      THROUGH        12TH    

Gloria took time away to think about her relationships with Dimitri and Tad. Jack visited Erica in jail. Trevor and Janet got into another goofy argument. Mateo continued to poke around for information on the plane crash. Scott and Laura broke up. Kelsey thought that Kevin was in love with her.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    15TH      THROUGH        19TH    

Kevin told Kelsey that they could not pretend they had a relationship any longer. Erica was told that her visitation with Bianca was cut off until Bianca was of age. Miles Christopher made waves as the president of TransGlobal's parent company and as a potential boyfriend for Belinda. Brooke flipped out mid-air and was subsequently arrested. Adam tried to woo back Liza.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    22ND      THROUGH        26TH    

Dimitri took Edmund to court over custody of Maddie. Jim revealed that Laura was the cause of the fire that killed her mother. Miles and Belinda got cozy-but not too cozy. Liza recorded Brooke's meltdown at WRCW for broadcast. Stuart and Esther got closer. Adam and Liza patched up their differences thanks to a little help from Stuart. Laura's nudie pictures showed up on the Internet-and in Gillian's hands!
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    29TH      THROUGH        OCTOBER        3RD    

From her jail cell, Erica plotted to get Gloria to give Maddie back to Edmund. Laura and Scott patched things up, but Gillian had other plans for them. Judith left town for six months without telling Kevin. Jason wanted Kevin to visit him in jail. Tim fervently opposed Trevor's decision to date Janet. Brooke was finally able to come to terms with her feelings of guilt over the crash of Flight 149. Miles grounded all TransGlobal flights. An employee blamed Adam for TransGlobal's problems, and later Adam felt he was responsible for the deaths on Flight 149. As he battled his conscience, he learned that Liza was aboard a TransGlobal flight that had to make an emergency landing.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    OCTOBER      1997    

    6TH      THROUGH        10TH    

Bianca was diagnosed with anorexia. Liza suffered a miscarriage. Erica planned to sue for joint custody of Bianca. Matt and Hayley schemed to allow Edmund to see Maddie. Tim and Janet sparred over her relationship with Trevor. Laura learned that her photos were on the Internet. Gillian planned to help Erica escape from jail.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    13TH      THROUGH        17TH    

Laura freaked out when she learned that her photos were on the Internet, and a surprise party Brooke planned to fete Laura's Person of the Week status didn't help matters. Erica took to live television to help soothe Bianca's nerves, even though Erica was terrified that the doctors diagnosed Bianca as anorexic. Dimitri caught Edmund visiting with Maddie and got a restraining order against his brother. He later got some startling news from Maddie's blood work. Brooke received a ransom letter announcing that Laura had been kidnapped.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    20TH      THROUGH        24TH    

Jim "saved" Laura from her kidnapper, but it was later revealed that Jim was in on the kidnapping. Adam tried to settle the TransGlobal situation. He later thought he was in the clear when a buyer took over the airline's parent company-but he was wrong. Fowler admitted to Dimitri that Skye altered his paternity test results.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    27TH      THROUGH        31ST    

Brooke vowed to use all of her resources to find the man who took Laura's pictures. Bianca was released from the hospital but was still wary of food. Dimitri threatened to kill Skye if she even thought about telling Edmund that Maddie was his child. Janet got a spooky Halloween surprise. From behind bars Erica figured out that Maddie was really Edmund's baby.
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    NOVEMBER      1997    

    3RD      THROUGH        7TH    

Ricky returned to town and asked Jim for more money. Brooke and Jim grew closer, with Brooke becoming dangerously dependent on Jim. Erica unraveled the truth and told Edmund that he was really Maddie's father. Skye confessed to Edmund that she switched the paternity results. Mateo got on The Cutting Edge and revealed that Adam was behind the problems at TransGlobal.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    10TH      THROUGH        14TH    

Jake and Allie battled each other in the triathlon and ended up sharing a kiss. Adam tried to explain himself to Liza but nothing he said convinced her that he wasn't responsible for TransGlobal's accidents. Edmund and Jack prepared to act on the news that Maddie was not Dimitri's daughter, but Dimitri fled the country before he could be served with papers. Tad and Edmund traveled to Budapest to find Dimitri, but they found unexpected roadblocks in their way.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    17TH      THROUGH        21ST    

Jim told Ricky that he only wanted Brooke's money as Brooke distanced herself from him. Liza refused to go back to Adam. The triathlon ended in a tie. Tim stole Janet's car and Trevor decided to have him arrested, causing Tim to plot revenge against Janet. Edmund and Tad were locked up in the wine cellar at Vazdel, but Edmund escaped and convinced Gloria to go to a local hospital and check out Maddie and Dimitri's blood types.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    24TH      THROUGH        28TH    

After months of pain, Edmund was finally reunited with his daughter. Erica's petition for parole was denied and she spent Thanksgiving in lock-up. She was, however, allowed to have a holiday dinner with her friends and family, and coaxed Bianca into eating real food. A man from Allie's past crashed her holiday meal at the Martins. Tim locked himself in a meat locker and decided to put the blame on Janet so that she'd be thrown in jail!
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   


    DECEMBER      1997    

    1ST      THROUGH        5TH    

Jim threatened to break off his fling with Brooke. Gillian learned that her father lost everything they had on gambling debts. Erica planned on paying off the prison guards to escape, but Jack talked her out of it. Tim accused Janet of locking him in the meat locker and she took a polygraph test to prove her innocence..
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    8TH      THROUGH        12TH    

Ricky overdosed on heroin and died. Brooke opened up and told Jim that he was the only man she wanted in her life. Erica got a harebrained idea to have a hooker take her place in jail. Janet told Amanda that her dream of a happy family would never come true. Adam suffered a mini-stroke... or did he?
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    15TH      THROUGH        19TH    

Jim plotted to get Laura to leave Pine Valley so that she'd offer no interference in his relationship with Brooke. Erica realized that she could not escape from jail. Mateo realized that Adam was faking his illness and arranged a situation to prove it. It worked and Liza and Hayley turned their backs on Adam. Later, Adam had another attack-but was this one real? Tim confessed that Janet did not lock him up and then ran away in shame. Trevor told Janet that he loved her.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    22ND      THROUGH        26TH    

Tad, Edmund, and Gillian devised a plan to expose Dimitri as a kidnapper. Gloria learned that she was not pregnant. Mateo exposed Adam and his fake illness. After crying wolf so many times, no one believed Adam when he later suffered a real mini-stroke. Trevor proposed to Janet, but she turned him down as part of a promise to Natalie. Tim ran away from home and was mugged by two thugs. His life was saved by a woman, who he believed to be his mother. Erica was granted parole and returned home just in time for Christmas.
| Click here for the complete recap. |

    29TH      THROUGH        JANUARY        2ND      1998    

Adam rejoiced that new evidence had turned up in the investigation into Flight 149's crash. Janet turned down another proposal from Trevor. Dimitri figured out that Gillian was his mysterious blackmailer. Brooke found a suitcase in Jim's closet that matched the one said to have carried plastic explosives on Flight 149. The Crystal Ball began with a night of magic-literally!
| Click here for the complete recap. |



Return to the top of this section.

  ^ back to the top   





More Archived Recaps
  1995
   Oct | Nov | Dec


  1996
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  1997
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  1998
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  1999
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2000
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2001
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2002
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2003
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2004
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2005
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2006
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2007
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2008
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec


  2009
    Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
    Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec



Recaps for Other Soaps
  » All My Children
  As the World Turns
  The Bold and the Beautiful
  Days of our Lives
  General Hospital
  Guiding Light
  One Life to Live
  Passions
  The Young and the Restless


More Recaps
  Last week's recaps
  Recaps from last year
  Five years ago this week
  Ten years ago this week
  Recaps archives (since 1995)



   Discuss on our message boards
   Blog about AMC
   Feedback
  Other Daily Recap Options
 Today's Recap | Last Week's Recaps
In addition to reading this week's recaps, there are many more options in this section.

Year at a Glance: Get caught up in no time with the weekly summaries on our Daily Recaps Archives page.

Last Year: Find out what was happening in Pine Valley last year at this time.

Five Years Ago: Take a trip down memory lane and see what was happening this week in 2004.

Ten Years Ago: Think of it as traveling back in time -- or just a blast from the past -- and see what was happening this week in 1999.

Look Ahead: Peer into the future with The Scoop's spoilers and previews.


    © 1997-2009 soapcentral.com| Home | Feedback | Advertising Information | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Top |